Cable Visions : : Television Beyond Broadcasting / / ed. by Cynthia Chris, Anthony Freitas, Sarah Banet-Weiser.
Cable television, on the brink of a boom in the 1970s, promised audiences a new media frontier-an expansive new variety of entertainment and information choices. Music video, 24–hour news, 24-hour weather, movie channels, children's channels, home shopping, and channels targeting groups based o...
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Year of Publication: | 2007 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Institutions and Audiences
- Introduction
- 1. The Moms ’n’ Pops of CATV
- 2. A Taste of Class: Pay-TV and the Commodification of Television in Postwar America
- 3. Cable’s Digital Future
- 4. If It’s Not TV,What Is It? The Case of U.S. Subscription Television
- 5. Where the Cable Ends: Television beyond Fringe Areas
- Part II. Channels
- Introduction
- 6. Discovery’s Wild Discovery: The Growth and Globalization of TV’s Animal Genres
- 7. Tunnel Vision and Food: A Political-Economic Analysis of Food Network
- 8. Target Market Black: BET and the Branding of African America
- 9. Monolingualism, Biculturalism, and Cable TV: HBO Latino and the Promise of the Multiplex
- 10. Gay Programming, Gay Publics: Public and Private Tensions in Lesbian and Gay Cable Channels
- 11. The Nickelodeon Brand: Buying and Selling the Audience
- Part III. Cable Programs: The Platinum Age of Television?
- Introduction
- 12. Cable Watching: HBO, The Sopranos, and Discourses of Distinction
- 13. Bank Tellers and Flag Wavers: Cable News in the United States
- 14. Dualcasting: Bravo’s Gay Programming and the Quest for Women Audiences
- 15. “I’m Rich, Bitch!!!”: The Comedy of Chappelle’s Show
- 16. Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment’s Global Reach: Latino Fans and Wrestlers
- About the Contributors
- Index